The Bureau of Economic Analysis recently announced that GDP growth in the fourth quarter of last year was 3.3%. That meant for…
A recent Pew Research poll confirms that the vast majority of Americans believe special interests and their campaign contributions dominate our political…
The Bureau of Labor Statistics just released the inflation data for December 2023. The Consumer Price Index increased by 0.3%…
The free market system, when left alone, will always reach a balance. Individual markets end up with a fair price…
Recently, Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell said that with the inflation rate falling and the labor market cooling, interest rates…
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen recently talked about the progress that the Biden administration and the Federal Reserve have made toward…
JetBlue Airways wants to buy Spirit Airlines. Alaska Airlines wants to buy Hawaiian Airlines. Both deals must be approved by…
The good news is that the annual inflation rate has fallen from a peak of 9.1% in June 2022 to…
There are apparently many Americans who don’t want either political party frontrunner to be president. A recent NPR-Marist poll found 65%…
The House of Representatives recently passed a bill to provide $14.3 billion in federal aid to Israel. Usually spending bills…
For the second consecutive meeting, the Federal Reserve has decided to hold interest rates constant. Just as it did in…
As noted in a prior column, the country has started to experience the beginning of the dreaded wage-price spiral. This one,…
In the 1970s, inflation was increasing, federal government budget deficits were escalating, energy prices were rising, interest rates were spiking,…
The September consumer price index (CPI) number indicated that the annual inflation rate was 3.7%. This is the same annual…
Perhaps the biggest fear about allowing inflation to linger, which the Federal Reserve has done by pausing interest rate hikes,…